Andy Rooney Quotes
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.
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I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
